Like Gassers? There will be no shortage of them at the East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame weekend, Oct. 20-22.

You have to figure that the great David “Silver Fox” Pearson must’ve been slightly tweaked in order to put an over-powered, ill-handling NASCAR Grand National stock car on the pole 113 times, never mind the 105 career wins he recorded (16 in 1968 alone!).

But if you need proof that the Fox was, in fact, completely fearless, head to the East Coast Drag Times Hall of Fame weekend in Henderson, North Carolina, October 20-22 and feast your eyes on the
Cotton Picker—a 1965 Dodge Dart station wagon with a rear-mounted Hemi and a straight front axle that Cotton Owens built and Pearson drove in quarter-mile match races.

You read that right: In the mid-1960s, several top NASCAR stock car drivers actually match raced at drag strips in the South, probably to make extra money that they could funnel back into their stock car racing efforts.

Better still, you can ask Pearson and Owens just exactly what they were thinking, as they both will be appearing at the weekend-long event which features traditional Southern barbecue, a Friday night cruise-in, a city full of classic hot rods, muscle cars and, of course, vintage drag cars. Sounds pretty cool, actually.
For all the details, check out the press release.